Recycling Direct food contact

Franz, R., Recycled Polyethylene terephthalate) for direct food contact application, FDA submission CTS 71903, Petitioner Buhler A. G, Representative Laboratory Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging, Freising, Germany, Petition to the FDA, 2000. 

Recycling of post-consumer PET for direct food contact... 

Franz R, Huber M and Welle F, 1998, Recycling of post-consumer poly(ethylene terephthalate) for direct food contact application - a feasibility study using a simplified challenge test. Deutsche Lebensm.-Rdsch. 94 (9), 303-308. 

The German BfR (former BgVV) published recommendations on the mechanical recycling of post-consumer PET for direct food contact... 

Closed-loop recycling here means bottle-to-bottle recycling. One hundred percent post-consumer recycled PET was cleared by the FDA for direct food contact in March of 2009. See, for instance, IPF Inc. (2009). 

The strategies for dealing with potential migration of hazardous substances from recycled HDPE are essentially the same as with PET. First, a combination of the selection of starting materials and processing steps can be used to minimize the contamination levels that are present. The first company to obtain a letter of nonobjection from FDA for recycled HDPE in direct food contact was Union Carbide, which later sold the technology to Ecoplast, which also received a letter of nonobjection. ... 

They are FDA and USDA approved for direct food contact. They are also acceptable for direct food contact in Canada. EVAL resins are non-toxic and can be recycled for use in multi-walled structures. EVAL resins can be used in retortable food containers. Hiey are also used to produce hollow fibers for kidney dialysis machines. 

Super clean PET recycling, i.e., conventional PET recycling with an additional deep cleansing process, for example, solid state postcondensation. The resulting material can be expected to be suitable for direct food contact applications [12]. 

Polymer Recycling 4, No.l, 1999, p. 13-25 COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS AND FEASIBILITY STUDY OF RECYCLED HDPE FOR DIRECT FOOD CONTACT APPLICATIONS Salafranca J Cacho J Nerin C Zaragoza,University... 

As we will see in Chapter 9, multilayer blow molding is sometimes used as a way to incorporate recycled polymer in food-grade bottles. For safety reasons the use of recycled plastics in packaging that comes in direct contact... 

Some of the procedures of value for processing of mixed plastic wastes may also be useful for the recovery of value from the laminates used for efficient packaging of food and beverages (e.g., milk cartons, Tetrapaks). A combination of heat and pressure may be employed on a recycle stream of this type of material to fuse the mixed fibrous and resin components into a dense board-like product [31, 32]. This highly weather and insect resistant product, Eco Superwood Plastic Lumber, may be sawn, nailed, drilled, etc., like wood, and it resists rotting in direct contact with the soil without the need for preservatives. 

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